Really liked the link made in the fourth programme of the BBC’s The Virual Revolution between Norbert Wiener’s feedback loop for anti-aircraft gunners in WWII (ie breaking down the division between people and systems, to allow gunner’s to hit their airborne targets) and the radical impact of the status updates within Facebook (and the likes [...]
So what gives on the so-called OTS campaign? Firstly, I read a hard-hitting piece in the Charity Times from the National Coalition for Independent Action which quoted an open letter to the chief executives of the five national bodies, which have endorsed the revised National Compact, launched on December 16:
Dear Stephen, Debra, Stuart, Kevin and [...]
The Edge Annual Question — 2010
Personally, for 2010 it’s not how it changes the way I think – but how it helps me change the way I act.
HOW IS THE INTERNET CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK?
Read any newspaper or magazine and you will notice the many flavors of the one big question that everyone is [...]
Read the Wired article on a new threat to Internet security, exploiting the routers’ dependence on trust funnily enough (that’s 70s technology for you). For my selfish strategic purposes I particularly liked this quote: “Everyone … has assumed until now that you have to break something for a hijack to be useful,” Kapela said. “But [...]
Had a vivid dream last night including the usual suspects for topics, my honey, my mother, a comic, and my first Iraq War dream. It didn’t last long but for a war dream was short and sweet so thought it worth blogging, as I guess most such dreams are troubled. So I was in [...]
Ok, this is too much. An evangelical on the train to work, and another on the train on the way back. Both quoting scripture. Now, here’s my tip to evangelists. Don’t quote the Bible to people, talk in the language they understand. It will help you understand scripture better too, I promise.
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Received this recently from Stephen Marrin, Assistant Professor, Intelligence Studies Department, Mercyhurst College (below). It comes shortly after the piece in Wired magazine (‘Behind Enemy Lines With a Suburban Counterterrorist’) about a lday who trained herself up in cyber-counter terrorism. And who’s local FBI office have to use the internet terminal at their local library to ‘get online’. So why, in that context, bother joining the Service when you can be both analysts and decision maker in your own back room?
There are two types of people in this world — those who use ‘Satnav’ — and those whose use intuition. The more money you have the better Satnav you can afford, clearly. Intuition also doesn’t come cheap, when you develop it.
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If anyone found a coffee coloured latop (Apple Mac) in cafe Nero’s in High Street Ken’ today please drop me an email in confidence, or just drop it at reception at the Kensington Centre, 66 Hamersmith Rd. It belongs to a smart guy over from Harvard Medical School and it could have something useful on [...]
Liked the BBC TV report on the actions of one family caught up in the flooding, who had just sold their house the week before, and their parents who’s house was hit were away on holiday in the Canary Islands. Nice example of the potential power of people to predict the unpredicatble, or were they [...]
